REALTY:
Workshop

 

5 October 17, 2 pm

Studio, Front building, 1st floor

Free admission, limited capacity

Please RSVP until October 3, 2017, at sh@kw-berlin.de

 

Session hosted by the Sommerakademie Paul Klee fellowship program with artists Johanna Bruckner, Crystal Z Campbell, Luiza Crosman, Alexandros Kyriakatos, Alexis Mitchell, Bahar Noorizadeh, Heather M. O’Brien & Jonathan Takahashi

 

Over the period of Summer 2017 to Spring 2019, the Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern grants fellowships to eight artists committed to issues spelled out in the REALTY program. Having collectively pinned down some fundamental working premises, the Fellows now convene in Berlin to further elaborate the key premises, and share some core concerns with a small public. In conversation with Tirdad Zolghadr, the aim is to strategically reflect on the embeddedness of one’s practice within political, labor, and housing questions. With the point of departure being not only that contemporary art is an unregulated field par excellence. But that this precarious state of affairs produces the very cosmopolitan creative class that bolsters gentrification.

 

Part of project: REALTY

The project REALTY focused on the role of contemporary art in recent histories of gentrification. These days, it seems one artist, one venue, one model after another is being unmasked as being part of the problem. But we will not be discussing art’s shortcomings yet again. Instead, REALTY asked how art’s international playing field can be put to better use. It insisted on moving beyond critique, and towards an attempt at productive models, however vague or naive. The KW leg of REALTY kicked off in October 2017, with a series of public lectures, workshops, and screenings. The project was conceived by Tirdad Zolghadr, KW’s Associate Curator, and commissioned by KW and Sommerakademie Paul Klee Bern.

 

Curator: Tirdad Zolghadr
Curatorial Assistance: Sabrina Herrmann

 

REALTY was funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.

 

Overview 

2017–2022

 

REALTY:

Book launch Tirdad Zolghadr with Christopher Roth
11 May 22

 

Ethics as Authorship – A Preliminary Study of Institutional Power Structures
18 December 18

 

Perma-usage: the case of ZK/U

8 Dezember 18

 

STATECRAFT

14–18 November 18

 

SPACECRAFT

8–13 November 18

 

Larissa Fassler

Emotional Blackmail

2–12 November 18

 

Gentrify GIF/Realty
23 June 18, 12 pm

 

Resolution 3: Municipalism (Tehran)

22 April 18, 5 pm

 

Open Heart Surgery

9 April 18, 2 pm

 

2nd Working meeting: Kunstbloc and beyond

4 April 18, 6 pm

 

Resolution 2: Triple TV Propaganda

18 March 18, 3 pm

 

Resolution 1: Don’t Move!

17 March 18, 3 pm

 

Linda Goode Bryant and Laura Poitras: Flag Wars (2003)

  1. 5 October 17, 8.30 pm
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Dellbrügge & de Moll on below papers

4 October 17, 7 pm

 

Hausgeist

3 October 17, 6 pm

 

<p>Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.</p>

 

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.